RE: What Heaven is Like
June 7, 2012 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2012 at 2:59 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 7, 2012 at 1:50 pm)Aiza Wrote: His Apologia, written a bit over 10 years before he became a Cardinal, expounds on this:
[....doggrel exorcised.....]
.... Its worth noting that starving people, either through direct action or through passively failing to care for others, is also a sin within the Catholic Church (gasp!) so he's not planning on holding people hostage and starving them until people stop lying/stealing if that is what you are trying to insinuate here.
What a beloved of your pope could have been planning is hard to say. But what the pope actually implemented was for the cries of raped and violated children to be ignored, and for the excuses and alibis of their rapists and torturers indulged, and for a host of dirty and wilful untruths to be manufactured wholesale, and for the funds raised ostensibly for the poor to be paid out in hush money and shameful bribery, rather than that one tiny indignity or inconvenience be visited on the robed majesty of a man-made church or any limit set to its self-proclaimed right to be judge in its own cause.